My career in Silicon Valley (Quora, LinkedIn, Zoox) has been focused on optimizing large-scale data and software projects, from machine learning algorithms to electric cars. I like to make things run smoothly.

Efficient engineering boils down to four questions: Which decisions led to the status quo? What are the true constraints we need to work with? What’s the most elegant solution available? And which practices will keep the project from going backwards again later?

I founded GovTron to bring what I've learned to the public sector, and to bring my most talented peers with me.